KANNUR: Vayalkili leader Suresh Keezhattoor was attacked. It is alleged that the CPM is behind the incident. The complaint is that the CPM activists stopped him on the road and beat him. He has been admitted at the Lourde Hospital in Thaliparambu. The Taliparamba police has registered a case on the incident. Suresh’s wife Latha had contested against the CPM candidate in the local body polls.

Latha Suresh had contested in the women's reservation ward at Taliparamba in Keezhattur against the LDF. CPM candidate P Valsala won here by 140 votes. Latha got 236 votes and Valsala got 376 votes. Latha was actively involved in the struggle against the construction of a bypass road through the paddy field in Taliparamba.

Vayalkilikal contested with the support of the Congress and the BJP. The Congress and the BJP supported Latha without fielding their own candidates. But the CPM, which won more than 85 per cent of the votes last time, did not see them as their opponents.